Second Flight

Among the 30 passengers who escaped unhurt from the flaming crash of a Mid-Continent Airline Convair at Tulsa, Okla. one day last week were Dr. and Mrs. James D. Alway of Aberdeen, S.D., bound for Mexico on a vacation. Dr. Alway had been a pilot in World War I, but it was 49-year-old Mrs. Alway's first airline trip. When newsmen talked to her later, she was mainly worried because her vacation wardrobe, including a new spring coat, had been destroyed in the fire. Of her narrow escape she said simply: "My husband had his arm around me and as long as his arm is around me, I will not come to any harm."

Three days later, while Dr. Alway waited in Hot Springs, Ark., Mrs. Alway, still coatless, boarded another Mid-Continent plane, this time a DC-3, to fly back home for a new wardrobe. Less than an hour later, the plane headed in for a landing at the Sioux City, Iowa airport in a driving snowstorm, crashed and burst into flames. Rescuers pulled ten passengers safely from the wreckage. But among the 15 trapped in the flaming debris was Mrs. James Alway.

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